MEANING
To impose something unwanted or unsuitable on someone, often by disguising its quality or origin.
Use it for
Someone pushes an unwanted or misleading thing onto another person.Captures the unfair transfer of an unwanted responsibility, object, or explanation.
On the page
The seller tried to foist a cracked lens on the buyer.
Word forms
- Base
- foist
- Past tense
- foisted
- Past participle
- foisted
- Present participle
- foisting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- foist
- Present continuous
- am/is/are foisting
- Present perfect
- have/has foisted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been foisting
- Past
- foisted
- Past continuous
- was/were foisting
- Past perfect
- had foisted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been foisting
- Future
- will foist
- Future continuous
- will be foisting
- Future perfect
- will have foisted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been foisting
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